Emancipation: 1863

Emancipation Proclamation (1863)

Campaigns of 1863

  • Union Victories in Western Theater:
    • Fort Donelson, Island Number Ten, Pea Ridge, Glorieta Pass, Shiloh, Forts Jackson & St. Philip, Corinth, Stones River, Champion Hill, Vicksburg, Port Hudson, Chattanooga, Mobile Bay, Jonesborough, Westport, Franklin, Nashville, Bentonville, Fort Blakeley.
  • Confederate Victories in the West:
    • Wilson’s Creek, Chickamauga, Mansfield.
  • Union Victories in the Eastern Theater:
    • Malvern Hill, Antietam, Gettysburg, 3rd Winchester, Cedar Creek, Fort Fisher, Fort Steadman, Five Forks, 3rd Petersburg, Appomattox.
  • Confederate Victories in the Eastern Theater:
    • Fort Sumter, 1st Bull Run, 1st Winchester, Gaines’s Mill, 2nd Bull Run, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Cold Harbor, 2nd Petersburg, The Crater.

Economic Warfare & Contraband Concept

  • General Benjamin Butler initiated the "contraband" concept.
  • The Emancipation Proclamation was framed as an act of economic warfare.
  • The Proclamation was a war measure to seize property (slaves) from rebellious states.
  • Red areas on maps indicate where the proclamation would apply; blue areas indicate where it would not.

Politics of Emancipation

  • The Second Confiscation Act passed on 17 July 1862.

Black Soldiers in the Union Army (1862-65)

  • Black soldiers serving in the Union Army, by state.
  • Major African American battle sites in the Civil War 1862-65